Giacomo Tognini

About

I'm a Staff Writer on the Wealth team at Forbes, covering billionaires and their wealth. I've investigated the hidden wealth of Russian oligarchs, billions of dollars in assets held offshore by a member of the Adani family and the Adani Group, and the maze of corporate structures and secretive inner circle of crypto giant Binance. My work has been cited in filings at the Supreme Court of India, in U.S. congressional letters and in a Department of Justice seizure warrant for a Russian oligarch’s yacht. I also contributed to the Russian Asset Tracker project that won the 2023 European Press Prize for innovation and the Dubai Unlocked project that won the 2024 SABEW Best in Business Award for data journalism - medium division. My reporting has also led me to a prolific entrepreneur building the world’s first commercial space station and a lunar lander to bring America back to the moon; an S&P 500 tech firm in the plains of Oklahoma; a family-owned firm making insulin pens and vials for Covid-19 vaccines in northern Italy; and many more stories across the U.S. and the world. In the past, I've covered everything from oil & gas for Bloomberg News to the 2014 Indonesian presidential election for the Jakarta Globe. I'm a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and UC Berkeley, and my work has also appeared in the Houston Chronicle, the Calgary Herald, and more. See my work here (https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini), on Twitter (@giacomotognini) and on Bluesky (@giacomotognini.bsky.social). Tips: gtognini@forbes.com / giacomo.na.tognini@proton.me